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L. O. PINEL. APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY EXTINGUISHING GANDLBs.

N0. 312,29 Patented Feb. 17,1885.

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APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY EXTlNGUlSl-HNG CANDLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,291, dated February17, 1885.

Application filed June 4, 1884. (N0 model.) Patented in France Februaryll, 1884, No. 160,479.

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEON Gonmnn PINEL, a citizen of France, residing inthe city of Paris, in the Republic ofFrance, haveinvented a new anduseful Improvement in Apparatus for Automatically Extinguishing Candles,of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to extinguish candles automatically, sothat any one can go to bed and leave the candle to be put out safely bythe apparatus.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 and 3 are face views of theapparatus. Fig. 2 is a side View; Fig. 4, a top view of the same. Fig. 5is a face view of the same, showing it combined with a shade-holder.

The apparatus is made of iron, steel, or brass wire. The lower portionis in form of a ring, a, which is passed over the candle b and branchesout at the sides 0 c, which with the parts d d forms a kind of elastictriangle. At the upper part the spring sides 0 c are bent horizontallyat ff, so as to rest against thecandle,asshown.' (Figs.1,2,and4.) Thesehorizontal parts ff form the extinguishers, and may, if desired, alsocarry flat metal plates or enlargements p p, which are soldered orotherwise secured to them. These parts ff are bent back at g g'in formof cars which terminate in the loops h h of any form.

The action of the apparatus is as follows: Having placed the ring a overthe candle b, the spring sides 0 c are opened by drawing them apart byaid of the rings hit. The nipping parts ff are then pressed down as loas required on the candle, or as low as it is intended the candle shallburn before being extinguished, and the position the partsff occupy willbe the point of extinction of the flame, as the tallow or wax beingconsumed offers no further support to the parts ff, so that the saidparts ff or their enlargements p p nip the wick between them and put outthe light without any smoke and prevent the fat from running over. Fig.3 shows the candle extinguished by this means. The enlargements p 19 maybe sufficiently large to prevent the wick smoking. If the candle burnsmore on one side than the other, then on the side that is burned awaythe spring or side 0 or c, as the case may be, alone advances the partforf to the wick; but the ears g or g (on whichever side of the candle isburned away) come into play and rest against the candle, and so checkthe further advance of the extinguishing part f orf. In this manner thesaid part f or f remains till the other side of the candle burns level,when the other plate meets it and the candle is extinguished. The twoparts i t, which are suspended from the ears g g, may serve to hang awatch, at, upon by aid of the hook t. (See Fig. 5.)

To the rings h It may be fixed the supports 8 s of a shade, A, Fig. 5.The wire forming the support to the shade may be of a piece with thatforming the extinguisher.

I claim nothing that is shown in German Patent No. 12.063, of 1880,which shows a lam p-extinguisher that is inapplicable to .a candle inhaving no ears 9 g or external means for spreading the jaws apart. In myconstruction, moreover, the parts a, (Z d, c c, andff can all be made ofone continuous wire, as shown in Fig. 4.

Having thus described the invention and its mode of action, I clain1 l.The apparatus formed of a wire ring, a, arms (I (1, spring branches 0 c,and horizontal arms ff, all made of one continuous wire, substantiallyas and for the purpose herein shown an I described.

2. The ring a, arms a 0, horizontal partsf f, ears 9 g, and eyes h h,combined with the suspenders t t and hook i, substantially as hereinshown and described.

3. The combination ot'the ring aand arms 0 0 andff with the ears 9 9,eyes h h, supports 8 s, and shade A, substantially as herein shown anddescribed.

4. The combination oftheringa and arms cc and ff with the ears 9 g andeyes it h, substantially as and for the purposes herein specified.

LEON OORDIER PINEL.

\Vitnesses:

A. BLETRY, Boer. M. Hoornn.

